cheesewoodn.

Brit.

/ˈtʃiːzwʊd/, U.S.

/ˈtʃizˌwʊd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cheese n.¹, wood n.¹

Etymology: < cheese n.¹ + wood n.¹, apparently with allusion to the pale colour and relatively soft texture of the timber.

Australian.

Pale, relatively soft timber obtained from various Australian trees; (also) any of the trees producing such timber, esp. the pittosporum Pittosporum bicolor (family Pittosporaceae), the dita bark tree, Alstonia scholaris (family Apocynaceae) (more fully white cheesewood), and the Leichhardt pine, Nauclea orientalis (family Rubiaceae) (more fully yellow cheesewood).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other Australasian woods

puriri1835

beef-wood1836

whau1840

rimu1851

cheesewood1854

Tolosa-wood1866

karri1870

ivorywood1887

1854 Courier (Hobart, Austral.) 2 May 2/4 Carpodontos,—Box or Cheese-wood.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 588 ‘Cheesewood’..is yellowish-white, very hard, and of uniform texture and colour.

1948 Cairns (Queensland) Post 4 Dec. 4/6 The softer timbers—even down to the White Cheesewood Milky Pine and Sassafrass types—are more favourable to solid core wide-board panel making.

1984 D. J. Boland et al. Forest Trees Austral. (ed. 4) 614 (heading) Cheesewood. Leichhardt pine. Yellow cheesewood. Nauclea orientalis (L.) L.

2009 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 26 Apr. 12 One of the goals of the workshops was to showcase specialty Tasmanian timbers including fiddleback blackwood, native olive, cheesewood, tiger myrtle and sassafras.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cheesewood
释义	cheesewoodn. Brit. /ˈtʃiːzwʊd/, U.S. /ˈtʃizˌwʊd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cheese n.¹, wood n.¹ Etymology: < cheese n.¹ + wood n.¹, apparently with allusion to the pale colour and relatively soft texture of the timber. Australian. Pale, relatively soft timber obtained from various Australian trees; (also) any of the trees producing such timber, esp. the pittosporum Pittosporum bicolor (family Pittosporaceae), the dita bark tree, Alstonia scholaris (family Apocynaceae) (more fully white cheesewood), and the Leichhardt pine, Nauclea orientalis (family Rubiaceae) (more fully yellow cheesewood). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other Australasian woods puriri1835 beef-wood1836 whau1840 rimu1851 cheesewood1854 Tolosa-wood1866 karri1870 ivorywood1887 1854 Courier (Hobart, Austral.) 2 May 2/4 Carpodontos,—Box or Cheese-wood. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 588 ‘Cheesewood’..is yellowish-white, very hard, and of uniform texture and colour. 1948 Cairns (Queensland) Post 4 Dec. 4/6 The softer timbers—even down to the White Cheesewood Milky Pine and Sassafrass types—are more favourable to solid core wide-board panel making. 1984 D. J. Boland et al. Forest Trees Austral. (ed. 4) 614 (heading) Cheesewood. Leichhardt pine. Yellow cheesewood. Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. 2009 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 26 Apr. 12 One of the goals of the workshops was to showcase specialty Tasmanian timbers including fiddleback blackwood, native olive, cheesewood, tiger myrtle and sassafras. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854
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